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#f1919a
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f1919a
RGB
241, 145, 154
OKLCh
75.9% 0.116 14.2°
CIELAB (D50)
70.8, 37.9, 11.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.5; on black, Lc -57.6. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 25.8 and 31.1 and 49.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.26:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.26:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b55b66 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f1919a
protanopia
#a0a09b · ΔE00 25.8
deuteranopia
#b4b497 · ΔE00 31.1
tritanopia
#c8c800 · ΔE00 49.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrimrose Garden at ΔE00 0.914: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Primrose GardenΔE00 0.914 · #f3949b
- Pink GeraniumΔE00 1.292 · #f6909d
- Cherry FoamΔE00 1.646 · #f392a0
- Strawberry ShortcakeΔE00 1.751 · #fa8e99
- Conch ShellΔE00 1.976 · #fc8f9b
- Poudretteite PinkΔE00 2.004 · #e68e96
- DollieΔE00 2.063 · #f590a0
- PeonyΔE00 2.158 · #eb8f9d
- Strawberry IceΔE00 2.498 · #e78b90
- Wonder LustΔE00 2.571 · #ef8e9f
- Pink PorkyΔE00 2.668 · #ee9091
- Fruity LiciousΔE00 2.796 · #f69092
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.